Wembley owners plan to get into bed with Hilton

It is the home of football and soon fans may get a chance to spend the night there. Quintain Estates, owner of 56 acres surrounding Wembley Stadium, is in talks with Hilton to open a five-star, 400-bed hotel next to the stadium when it is functioning again in 2006. The hotel will also include conference facilities.

Quintain, which owns the entire site, expects a speedy planning decision. There are 2,900 car park spaces planned - half the previous number. It is hoped large new squares - the size of London's Leicester Square - and a car-free boulevard will be completed at the same time as the stadium.